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Come out a join us on October 6 for a family-friendly howlin’ good time at Hot Dog Roundup at Paradise Springs Winery. Bring your favorite two and four-legged friends and enjoy an afternoon of food, music, wine and great company. We’ll have games for the dogs and kids and some great silent auction items.

DC SCORES team members at Bancroft Elementary School hosted HT rep Leslie Shedd on April 29th in order to learn more about the plight of homeless animals and ways to help.

The students chose to help homeless animals and invited an HT representative, Leslie Shedd, to meet with them and tell them more about why the animals need our help and what we can do. Among other things, the students learned “We can help by raising money or get donations, talk to your friends and family about the importance or spaying or neutering so they can’t have babies so that less animals are put to sleep every six seconds, talk to your friends and family about taking their dogs to the vets to get check ups… etc.”

This is the original location, opened in 1979. The cozy, family-style restaurant is known throughout the area for its friendly atmosphere and delicious food. “Uncle Joe” is a fixture in the Westover neighborhood and can be counted on to make everyone feel comfortable and at home with his hospitality.

Please support Homeward Trails by dining out this Sunday, April 22nd for a great
cause. Just take the flyer to:

Pizzeria Uno 5935 Kingstowne Towne Center Alexandria, VA 22315

Between 11:30 AM and 10:00 PM and HT will receive 20% of your order total. Please help make this event a great success by spreading the word to family, friends and neighbors. Diners must bring the flyer in order for us to get credit. To access the flyer just click the headline of the article above to view the whole story and download the flyer. Can’t download the flyer, e-mail RebeccaG@homewardtrails.org.

On November 9th, HT participated in Give to the Max Day – a 24 hour competition where nonprofits in the DC area worked to secure the most number of donors and the most donations. With hundreds of nonprofits competing, many much larger and older than HT, we finished 2nd in the two major categories securing a total prize of $16,000! We cannot be more thrilled!

In addition to the $16,000 in prize money, HT supporters came out with gusto and donated a whopping $18,000+ bringing our total day’s earnings to more than $34,000 – all for our homeless animals.

We give a huge thank you to all of our many wonderful, loyal and generous supporters who helped make this day so successful. We could not do what we do without you. Many, many more animals will be rescued and given the chance at life they deserve thanks to you!

HT is proud to call Lynn Hackney, President (and Founder) of Urban Pace one of our own! Lynn has been with HT since its beginning – volunteering, donating, driving, fostering and adopting. And while celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Urban Pace, she designated HT to receive donations from their wonderful silent auction totaling more than $3,000.

Urban Pace has been the undisputed leader in urban new homes sales since 2001 and has successfully sold over $500 Million in sales volume throughout every significant urban neighborhood in DC. Since 2005, Urban Pace has sold more homes over $750,000 than all other competitors combined and has been responsible for the sales and marketing of the most prestigious and most expensive projects to date in the urban marketplace. Check them out at: http://www.urbanpace.com/index.php

We thank Lynn and Urban Pace and wish them many more years of success. We are lucky to have you as part of the HT family! Woof! Meow!

Do some holiday shopping and support a good cause on November 12th. Come out and support Homeward Trails Animal Rescue’s Paw-liday Gift Market. The Gift Market will offer a variety of products from artists, crafters, and direct sales representatives including, Silpada, Pampered Chef, luxury skin care products, decoupage, fabric crafts, personalized stationary, embroidered items, custom pet tags, pet product, gifts from around the world and more.

Proceeds from the event will help Homeward Trails bring more dogs and cats to loving homes for the holidays.